A Head Full of Wishes

Over at the official Dean & Britta web site Dean has blogged about the imminent paperback release of Black Postcards…
The paperback looks great; it has that distinguished Penguin logo right on the front, along with a quote from Liz Phair’s review in the New York Times Book Review: “Fast paced and memorable, peopled with characters [...]

Dean Wareham is selling signed copies of his memoir Black Postcards…
For those who couldn’t get to a book reading, but would like to buy a signed copy of the book, you can get one by sending a Paypal payment to fuzzmail@nyc.rr.com.
Within the U.S., send $25 (via Paypal only) to fuzzmail@nyc.rr.com
From Canada, send $28.
From Europe, South [...]

There’s a bit of a followup to Liz Phair’s NY Times review of Black Postcards in an interview on Rolling Stone’s website…
You recently reviewed former Luna and Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham’s autobiography for The New York Times. How did that come about?
I had a really good time writing that. They approached me, and I [...]

There’s a lengthy interview with Dean Wareham talking about Black Postcards recorded for WNYC Soundcheck on the NPR Music website
“When Luna broke up, I finally had time to sit down and tell this story,” Wareham says. “The personal stuff was more difficult — I was pushed by my editor after handing him the first draft [...]

The New Yorker’s music critic Sasha Frere-Jones reviews both Black Postcards and Liz Phair’s NY Times review of Black Postcards in a post on the New Yorker Online…
Wareham’s book briefly recounts his childhood—there is an excellent line about a hat he wore as a schoolboy in New Zealand—and moves on to his beginnings as a [...]

Dean Wareham is featured in the first episode of a new web TV show called Process, the five minute item features an interview and clips from Dean’s recent appearance at the Book Court in Brooklyn.

Dean will talking with host David Dye about Black Postcards in the second hour of the 8th May edition of NPR’s World Cafe. You can find out when it will be broadcast by your local public radio station on the NPR website or you can listen to the WXPN stream at 2pm Eastern Standard Time [...]

Sunday’s New York Times has a review of Black Postcards written by Liz Phair (who once pretended she was in a Galaxie 500 video)…
The author is nothing if not a connoisseur. But Wareham’s real gift is his ability to capture the minutiae of daily life in a rock ’n’ roll band and somehow make [...]

Dean Wareham’s book “Black Postcards” is out today and will hopefully be on the shelves of your bookseller of choice. Alternatively you can buy it online from Amazon/A Shop Full of Wishes…
Buy Black Postcards from A Shop Full of Wishes (US)
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If you’re in the New York City area this evening head [...]

The Boston Globe has an interview/article about Black Postcards which covers the break up of Galaxie 500 and specifically comparing the two sides of the story. The article, Making (and losing) the band, also has quotes from Kramer and a “no comment” comment from Damon & Naomi.
Wareham made the provocative choice to open his [...]